In this course, you will learn about cloud-based big data solutions such as Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and the rest of the AWS big data platform. You will learn how to use Amazon EMR to process data using the broad ecosystem of Apache Hadoop tools like Hive and Hue. Additionally, you will learn how to create big data environments, work with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Kinesis, and leverage best practices to design big data environments for security and cost-effectiveness.

Objective

1. Overview of Big Data

2. Data Ingestion, Transfer, and Compression

3. AWS Data Storage Options

4. Using DynamoDB with Amazon EMR

5. Using Kinesis for Near Real-Time Big Data Processing

6. Introduction to Apache Hadoop and Amazon EMR

7. Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce

8. The Hadoop Ecosystem

9. Using Hive for Advertising Analytics

10. Using Streaming for Life Sciences Analytics

11. Using Hue with Amazon EMR

12. Running Pig Scripts with Hue on Amazon EMR

13. Spark on Amazon EMR

14. Running Spark and Spark SQL Interactively on Amazon EMR

15. Using Spark and Spark SQL for In-Memory Analytics

16. Managing Amazon EMR Costs

17. Securing your Amazon EMR Deployments

18. Data Warehouses and Columnar Datastores

19. Introduction to Amazon Redshift

20. Optimizing Your Amazon Redshift Environment

21. The Big Data Ecosystem on AWS

22. Visualizing and Orchestrating Big Data

23. Using Tibco Spotfire to Visualize Big Data

Note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.